Run it in XTerm to test Where -fa is a short-hand for font face and fs is a shorthand for font-size.$ fc-list | cut -f2 -d | | sort -u | less # sort and page through the available fonts - not only fixed width fonts # print out the fixed width fonts that are available with their family nameįc-list :scalable =true:spacing =mono: family The first line below is the best one to use as this will show you the true type fonts that are installed which have a mono spacing option. Advice to use xlsfonts or xfontsel is to view old style bitmapped, fixed width fonts. Find a font that you like Use fc-list or gnome-font-viewer to view true type fonts.
Errors are written to ~/.xsession-errors (though I didn't use this):įor manual testing that's fine, but depending on how you're starting X you have to tell it to load in the X11 resources that you've defined. To check it's loading the X resources go to the new XTerm and use xrdb again. X loads configuration into itself using the xrdb command: Merge in changes to a running X session with:.Technically, it can be any file you want and you can include others, but this is the standard one to use. The important thing to know is that X is object orientated so the configuration strings are matching object paths in the X server. X11 resources aren't used by modern X UI toolkits (e.g GTK+/KDE) but they're pretty powerful. Those interested in using koi8rxterm will likely want to install the xfonts-cyrillic package as well.XTerm can be configured through command line switches, or through X11 resources. The xterm program uses bitmap images provided by the xbitmaps package. This package provides four commands: xterm, which is the traditional terminal emulator uxterm, which is a wrapper around xterm that is intelligent about locale settings (especially those which use the UTF-8 character encoding), but which requires the luit program from the x11-utils package koi8rxterm, a wrapper similar to uxterm for locales that use the KOI8-R character set and lxterm, a simple wrapper that chooses which of the previous commands to execute based on the user's locale settings.Ī complete list of control sequences supported by the X terminal emulator is provided in /usr/share/doc/xterm. This version implements ISO/ANSI colors and most of the control sequences used by DEC VT220 terminals. It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that cannot use the window system directly. Xterm is a terminal emulator for the X Window System.